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El Niño Intersects Zn & Pb in First Drill Results at Bathurst

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ELN News Oct 30, 2006

October
30, 2006, Vancouver, BC -- El Niņo Ventures Inc.
("El Niņo") (TSX.V: ELN; OTCBB: ELNOF; Frankfurt:
E7Q) is pleased to announce the first drill results on the western extension of
the Camel Back Pb-Zn-Cu deposit discovered in 1996.It is a small VMS deposit occurring in the Tetagouche Group
in the central part of the Bathurst Mining Camp
(≤200,000 tonnes at 5-7% Zn+Pb, not 43-101
compliant).

The
stratiform part of the deposit contains massive
sulphides underlain by tuffaceous sedimentary rock that
locally contains chalcopyrite veins. Interesting
zinc and lead mineralization was encountered at the
bottom portion of the 7.20 metre massive sulphide
horizon intersected which returned 2.2 metres at 4.93%
Zn and 0.71% Pb including 1.3 metres at 7.48% Zn and
1.02% Pb.

Drill Hole
ELN-06-095 was drilled at a step out of 75 metres west from the last
historical hole drilled along the Camel Back Deposit Horizon. This
year's $5 million program over the Bathurst Mining Camp will include
23,500 metres of drilling to be completed by March 2007.

Jean
Luc Roy, President of El Niņo states: "It is very encouraging to have
positive results to report so early in our drill program. Follow-up
work will determine the importance of these results but this positive news
confirms that the new technology used by our exploration team is working
very well and we look forward to communicating a steady flow of news to
our shareholders in the months ahead."

Quality Control

Drill
core is logged at the Brunswick No. 12 minesite
exploration core shack and mineralized interval samples
are taken from the drill core (NQ size) sawed in half with one
half sent to the Brunswick No. 12 laboratory and other
half retained for future reference. A strict QA/QC
program is followed which includes mineralization
standards, blanks and field duplicates for each batch of
samples. The Bathurst Mining Camp Exploration
Program is being carried out under the direction of
Xstrata Zinc Canada exploration manager Normand Dupras, P.
Geo., a qualified person as defined by National 43-101
guidelines. The information in this release was
prepared under the direction of Doug Clark, P. Geo.,
Geologist for El Niņo Ventures Inc., a qualified person
as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

About El Niņo Ventures Inc.

El
Niņo is an exploration stage company whose corporate objective is to
revisit former mining regions and apply the latest technologies to
advanced stage exploration targets. El Niņo Ventures has entered into an
Option / Joint Venture Agreement with Xstrata Zinc Canada to explore the
world class Bathurst Zinc / Base Metals Mining Camp in New Brunswick,
Canada. In addition to the Bathurst Mining Camp, El Nino Ventures
continues to focus on advanced stage properties throughout Canada, Alaska
and Europe.

On
Behalf of the Board of Directors,

"Jean Luc Roy"

Jean
Luc Roy

President
& COO

The
TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility
for the adequacy or accuracy of this release

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